Expunging the Bogeyman: Sady Doyle’s Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers
The root of these imagined, monstrous versions of women, Doyle argues, is fear.
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Posts Tagged: Soraya Chemaly
What to Read When You’re Mad Enough to Burn It Down
Lilly Dancyger shares a reading list to celebrate BURN IT DOWN: WOMEN WRITING ABOUT ANGER.
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Notable NYC: 5/25–5/31
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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What to Read When Our Country Is Ruled by Sexual Predators
A list of books by feminist writers who examine and dismantle rape culture.
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Notable NYC: 9/29–10/5
Literary events in and around NYC this week!
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What to Read When You’re Fed Up with Men
Alexandra Tweten shares a list to celebrate her new book, BYE FELIPE.
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We’ve blogged before about the issue of representation in children’s and young-adult literature. This post by Soraya Chemaly looks at the numbers and finds that kid-lit books feature twice as many male protagonists as female ones (three times as many when the characters are animals), and about a bajillion more white protagonists than protagonists of […]
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